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April 14, 2005 Leave a comment
Interested in helping to spread the word about LinuxQuestions.org and have the chance to win a great limited edition LQ shirt in the process? The latest LQ Contest has begun. Good luck.
–jeremy
April 13, 2005 Leave a comment
I'm back and just starting to catchup on things. Looks like there was some drama while I was away. It appears that Linus will no longer be using Bitkeeper for the main Linux repository after Larry revoked the free license. You can get some of the details here, although some of the statements there seem to be a bit off. I'm still reading up on this, so I'll hold my opinion for now, until I am a bit more informed. I think everyone (including Linus) saw moving off bk as an eventually certainty, although Linus mentions that he had hoped to allow the free SCM projects to mature a bit more before the move. Tridge is a really smart guy and so is Linus, and the whole situation seems unfortunate IMHO. Hopefully I'll have had enough time to read up on this and form an opinion before the next LQ Podcast.
–jeremy
March 31, 2005 Leave a comment
It appears that Dell is once again offering workstations preloaded with Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS to be exact). A major manufacturer selling Linux workstations is something that has been sorely needed, and hopefully once one major manufacturer starts others will follow. It's easy to be a bit skeptical here though. If you recall, shortly after Michael Dell gave the keynote at the 2000 LinuxWorld, Dell pulled all Linux workstations from their site. Some speculated that it was due to pressure from Microsoft, as kickbacks and spifs from MSFT is where Dell generates a lot of its cash. Here's hoping that this is for real and that other PC makes follow suit.
–jeremy
March 30, 2005 Leave a comment
While it's great to see MySQL maturing, one has to hope that they don't forget where they came from or why they are so popular. It's fantastic that they are adding stored procedures, triggers, views and ACID features to MySQL ('fixing 10 years of criticism in one release', according to one of the co-founders). Fantastic, that is, only if they can retain what has made MySQL so wildly popular – easy to install, a breeze to maintain and optimize and lightning fast. Each MySQL release I've used (3.22->3.23->4.0->4.1) has been better in almost every regard than the previous version and I'm anxious to check out 5.0 – I just hope MySQL hasn't lost what made it great in order to become “enterprise-ready”.
–jeremy
March 29, 2005 Leave a comment
An interesting article about how Progeny was able to weather the dot-com crash and turn into a profitable company. Some words of wisdom from Ian Murdock, who was a major reason that Progeny was able to stay afloat.
–jeremy
March 28, 2005 Leave a comment
LQ ISO is now smart enough to know what country you are visiting from and show you mirrors in your country before all others. Of course you still have the ability to choose from the full mirror list, but this feature should make finding a close download mirror that much easier. Over 600,000 downloads have already been facilitated by LQ ISO. 1,000,000 downloads – here we come!
–jeremy
March 24, 2005 1 Comment
In case you weren't able to listen to the Linux Link Tech Show last night, I've posted an OGG of the show. Hopefully you'll find the segment I was in interesting ;) I come in just about 38 minutes into the show.
–jeremy
March 23, 2005 1 Comment
Looks like I'll be on The Linux Link Tech Show tonight. The show starts at 8:30 EST. Tune in!
–jeremy
March 22, 2005 Leave a comment
I was extremely excited when I read the above headline…and then I read the article. It's great to see that the attorney thinks that the “SAE surrendered to the GPL” and I'm certainly glad that the side representing the the GPL came out on top, but the reality is (or so it seems to me) that this was a settlement, not a judge ruling on the case. I'd hesitate to call that a legal win as to my knowledge you can't use someone settling as precedent. The GPL surely will have it's day in court and I'm confident in its ability to stand up to litigious lawyers, but I'd hesitate to call this that day. Remember though, I am not a lawyer – I don't even play one on TV. I could very well be missing something. If I am, let me know.
–jeremy
March 21, 2005 Leave a comment
A great article from Danese Cooper, who was an Open Source evangelist at Sun and will soon be going to Intel. This article is a good look inside Sun and it shows that some people there really truly do get it. The article touches on Open Sourcing Java and also states that Sun contacted Linus before the whole OpenSolaris thing, which I didn't know. As always, Linus answers in a way that you've come to expect (and that I really respect and appreciate).
–jeremy
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